Morning Linkage (Sept 22)

Transportation

Repli­cas are one way to move bikes in a reces­sion. Spies fans can hop
a plane to the UK for this one.

A new trend in adver­tis­ing, iPhone apps. Used some­what effec­tive­ly to
adver­tise the new VW Scirocco.I have no idea if you get the Wag­n­er
sound track to go with the game but it’s a dri­vable Nur­bur­gring for
the iPhone. (And you all were won­der­ing why I’d give in.…)

I prob­a­bly won’t shell out the cash for Gran Tur­is­mo 5, but I know
enough peo­ple who will that I should get at least one chance to dri­ve
the in-game M-B SLSAMG gull­wing.

On a more respon­si­ble note. Mak­ing pub­lic trans­porta­tion more
inter­est­ing with cool bus stops. Why so much fruit?

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Technology

Pro­jec­tor TV and remote sen­sor tech meets pool table. Visu­als that
react to the balls in play. Expen­sive­ly installed in the Esquire
Ulti­mate Bach­e­lor Pad, which gives you some idea of the amount of
class attached to the graph­ics being pro­ject­ed. SFW

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Culture

Last Fri­day was Park­ing Day. Some pics from around the coun­try. I am
as baf­fled as the poster as to what the pyra­mid of bowl­ing balls was
try­ing to indi­cate.

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Art, Images, and Illustration

Low 3-D is a use­ful term for not-quite sculp­tures that hang on a wall.Mered­ith Dittmar’s box­es are invit­ing. (Click through to her web­site
for more chal­leng­ing images.)

This is more of a com­ment on street artist wanna-bes than the
ubiq­ui­tous IKEA flat pack. Banksy par­o­dies him­self, his fel­low
artists, and their sud­den (?) legit­i­ma­cy.

Toot­ing his own horn but not unrea­son­ably, Brett Polok shows us a few
of his lat­est paint­ings. Com­ic books, sten­cils, graf­fi­ti. There’s a
lot of sim­i­lar out recent­ly. This is the way it should be done.

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The title only comes clear in the last few para­graphs of the book. The jour­ney to the singing of the unburied is painful and ten­der all at once. A sto­ry of three gen­er­a­tions of bay­ou peo­ple liv­ing in an enchant­ed, haunt­ed world. …